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Photo allows them to ID you more easily. No photo would be a step away from the papers please society we live in today, even if it's not all the way there.
This you? https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
Yeah that is the point of an ID?? Okay how else would you identify (id) people without a picture, so you know the person in front of you is who they claim to be?
Edit: clarifying ID means = identify/identity
That's the neat part. You don't.
Cool cool and how do you now operate variouse systems, contracts, memberships, crime fighting, investigation, secure democratic processes so no voter fraud happens, health care, all kinds of social payments, licenses to drive?
We already have ways to verify identity without IDs, you just don't think about them that way. The entire internet is built on them.
For important things like driver's licenses or voting where everyone has an interest in your identity being confirmed, we could have a federation of identity verifiers which you could voluntarily choose between, and which maintain trust between each other and with their members. That way you can choose one you trust who says to everyone else "yup, this person is licensed, etc."
Very similar to how the fediverse works.
knowing the people around you seems like it makes all that work
Oh ok so we'll all just get to know 300 million people individually.
Smart.
this is a strawman
How? It's quite literally what you just said.
no it's not. you're not around 300 million people.
You just said knowing everyone around you makes those things work.
and you're not around 300million people
Thank you KenM!